Hat attachment



(No Model.)

J. GROSSGEBAUER.

HAT ATTACHMENT. Y

No. 599,176. Patented Feb; 15,1898.

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HAT ATTACH ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 599,176, dated. February 15, 1898.

Application filed November 2,1896. Serial No. 610,836- (N'o model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN GROSSGEBAUER, of Newark, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in I-Iat Attachments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification,.reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure l is a front elevation of my newlyinvented match-box and scratch-tablet. Fig. 2 isa side elevation, and Fig. 3 a top view thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views of the drawings.

My invention relates to personal implements; and it consists of the hereinafter-described pocket and tablet secured together by a wire fastener, which serves also for securing this implement inside of ahat or other garment. Y

My invention tends to provide an implement for carrying matches or tickets inside serted therein whose ron s e also serve for securing the implement to a garment. On the surface of the tablet b may be pasted to it a sheet 0, of fine sandpaper or of emerycloth, to provide a scratching-surface for the matches. Underneath the sheet 0 is left a longitudinal space on the cardboard b for pasting or printing thereon a label bearing the name of the owner of the hat or an advertisementsuch as Use Paraffin Matches, Smoke Genuine Durham, Lightning Bicycle-Lamp, and the like.

My improved match-box may also be adapted for that kind of matchesknown as Swedish. In that case the strip 0 instead of being of emery-cloth or sandpaper is made of paper coated with the substance required for lighting of these matches and pasted on the cardboard. 1

The box is secured in the hat by inserting the prongs of the wire fastener ethrough the sweat-band and then bending them in the manner as it is usually done.

The same implement may be used for carrying of railway-tickets and a time-table, the tickets being inserted in the pocket in the same manner as the matches, and a tablet stating the time of departure and arrival of trains is pasted on the cardboard b in place of the strip 0.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. Asa new article of manufacture, a match or ticket box comprising a pocket formed of a folded strip of flexible material, a tablet, and a wire fastener securing the tablet to the pocket, and adapted to secure the implement inside of the hat or other garment.

2. The combination with a pocket, formed of a folded strip of flexible material, and with a tablet, provided with a partly-roughened surface, of a wire fastener for pinning the tablet to the pocket and securing both inside of a hat or other garment.

In witness that I claim the improvements described in the foregoing specification I have signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN GROSSGEBAUER.

Witnesses:

A. W. KING, E. O. NIELSON. 

